WindowBlinds 6 Beta Feedback

Published on August 1, 2007 By Neil Banfield In Stardock Support General

Please post all feedback about the WindowBlinds 6 beta on this thread.

Note that the beta is for 32 bit XP and Vista systems only. Please do not post about it not working on 64 bit XP/Vista. Please continue to use WB 5.51 on those platforms.

This beta is for Object Desktop customers ONLY. Standalone WindowBlinds 5 owners will not be able to activate this build.

Please note that you must have Stardock Central 2.46 Build 154 or later to install the WindowBlinds 6 betas. If you try and use older versions, it'll eventually timeout and give you an error about an invalid URL.

If you have problems with it running at all, please uninstall WB6, reboot and then try reinstalling WB6 again.

Comments (Page 33)

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vStyler

on Sep 28, 2007

And never feed SKS5 after midnight or get it wet.

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neophil78

on Sep 28, 2007

have the same problem, Neophil. This is the first post I've seen that mentions the prob. I upgraded to WB6 and Start Meneu and Taskbar were skinned 'til I rebooted, then both were rendered in Windows Classic only. When I opened WBconfig, the skin did not show a taskbar in the preview! If there was a substyle to the skin, it still had the taskbar visible in the preview pane, and a skinned taskbar and Start Menu...until reboot, then also that substyle had no taskbar in the preview pane. Any skin I chose, same behavior. Diamond ran until I rebooted, then no taskbar skinned and none visible in the preview pane. Only way I fixed it was to delete the theme and reinstall it, then fine 'til next boot! Weird, yes. Hope it gets fixed soon

I have the same problum with new build help

Found the way to get rid off this ...
In fact when ugrading to WB6 (and probably during all skins are moved from C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Stardock\WindowBlinds all .wb4 files are deleted.
If you still have Skinstudio V5 as .uis editor, when editing any .uis file and saving it, it seems to not create all the .wb4 files needed by WB6 version.

Though the solution if you have those kind of troubles with a skin (at least under XP) is to edit the .uis file no more with Skinstudio V5, but with Skinstudio beta 6 and save it this way, and as a magical fairy coming on your PC, everything's go back the right way ...

I was wrong to say i was wrong

IT WORKS, i just omit to delete previously the lefted .wb4 made when applying skin through SKS V5 (BTW, it would be interisting to understand why SKS v5 is now obsolete ...

)

Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggg, it doesn't work anymore

I've updated to latest WB6 build, reboot and then * BUMP *

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bilbo1930

on Sep 28, 2007

Call Neil...
Hi Neil !
Im on vista...
Install latest wb6 update ( but before see this bug too)
First pic on IR's latest wb : From here
im total switch off blur and trans , but on active window see this grey layers, only left and right borders.

( on xp not seen this layers)

Second vStyler sexy vista skin: enable blur and trans, white layers on bottom and right...
im wrong, or what can i do?
My sysinfo on the pic's..
Thanx ...
Bilbo

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Neil Banfield

on Sep 28, 2007

The issue with the top picture has been resolved for the next build.

The problem with the second picture requires an updated skin from the author. You seem to have an earlier version of the skin where the shadows are grey instead of black.

485

vStyler

on Sep 28, 2007

I believe I may have this resolved, not thrilled about the solution but hope to have it remedied this weekend.

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neophil78

on Sep 29, 2007

The issue with the top picture has been resolved for the next build.

And the users relating the trouble just above ? have they bad breath that it seems you don't care ?

487

Astyanax

on Sep 29, 2007

The issue with the top picture has been resolved for the next build.

Anything on my issue with the Catalyst Control Center and using custom skins? Where you guys able to reproduce it?
It's not really that big of a deal, just have to make sure you arent using the custom skins that come with it or else it wont load.

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Neil Banfield

on Sep 29, 2007

neophil78: We cannot reproduce your problem with the classic startmenu.

Every single XP box we have reboots just fine with the skin being applied to everything.

I suggest you search for *.wb4 and delete them all.

Then see if that helps. If not then try downloading a new skin and see if that skin works ok for you.

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Neil Banfield

on Sep 29, 2007

Astyanax0: I have just tried the 32 bit CCC with WB 6 and it works just fine which is expected given that CCC is skinned using Stardock DirectSkin.

I will make sure to check the 64 bit version next time I am in 64 bit Windows.

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Astyanax

on Sep 29, 2007

Astyanax0: I have just tried the 32 bit CCC with WB 6 and it works just fine which is expected given that CCC is skinned using Stardock DirectSkin.

Yeah I figured that was the case, which made the bug seem very strage.

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neophil78

on Sep 29, 2007

neophil78: We cannot reproduce your problem with the classic startmenu.

Every single XP box we have reboots just fine with the skin being applied to everything.

I suggest you search for *.wb4 and delete them all.

Then see if that helps. If not then try downloading a new skin and see if that skin works ok for you.

The problem is that it's far from being a self problem, have a look in different threads and see, there's quiet a lot of people who have the same trouble ...

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bilbo1930

on Sep 29, 2007

The issue with the top picture has been resolved for the next build.

The problem with the second picture requires an updated skin from the author. You seem to have an earlier version of the skin where the shadows are grey instead of black.

Thanks for answer Neil!

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thebleedingedge

on Sep 30, 2007

Since the latest update, windows explorer keeps crashing. This is the message I keep getting. All the other issues for me seem to be resolved. This is a new problem.

Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, faulting module ole32.dll, version 5.1.2600.2726, fault address 0x00078e25.

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WebGizmos

on Sep 30, 2007

Ok...been trying to download this latest build but it just keeps sitting there doing nothing. Do we need to disable archiving in order to get this latest build. I already did this once and lost the last latest build so I'm not really wild about doing this again and losing yet another build. The build I had to install this last time is 6.0 beta build 21x86 since I had to turn off archiving to get the newest one. And the most recent build of SDC I have is 2.47.482, build 159. So I'm not even sure if thats the most recent now. Any suggestions in the right direction would be great.

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thebleedingedge

on Sep 30, 2007

disable auto archiving

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